Readers will note my tardiness in reporting this stunning story. The reason is because both the European and the American press have completely ignored both the civil trial against Gates, Bourla, Rutte et al. and van Kessel’s arrest.

I knew nothing about van Kessel’s arrest until last night, when my co-author, Dr. Peter McCullough, forwarded to me a report by INFOWARS journalist, Adan Salazar. Once again, the so-called “conspiracy theorist” Alex Jones has proven to be one of the first guys to report the shocking reality of what is going on.

Salazar’s report prompted me to do a Google Netherlands search with the key words Arno van Kessel gearresteerd — that is, “Arno van Kessel arrested”—and I got one search result for a June 27 report in an independent online journal called Der Andere Krant (The Other Newspaper). The following is an English translation.

Arno van Kessel will be held in custody for an additional ninety days because the Public Prosecution Service continues to designate him as a “suspect in an investigation into a criminal network,” yet without presenting any evidence. This means the Leeuwarden lawyer will definitely not be present at the public hearing on July 9th in the Leeuwarden District Court, where the first substantive hearing in the internationally high-profile case against, among others, the State of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, and Bill Gates is scheduled. His partner, Peter Stassen, is on his own, but says he will “appear fully equipped.”

In early June, this newspaper reported that there was finally some progress in the internationally high-profile lawsuit by Leeuwarden lawyer Arno van Kessel https://deanderekrant.nl/nieuw-hoofdstuk-in-rechtszaak-tegen-bill-gates-en-mark-rutte/ and his Eindhoven colleague Peter Stassen. In 2023, the legal duo announced they would file legal proceedings against Bill Gates, Mark Rutte, and the Dutch State, among others. On behalf of their clients, they want to force the judge to issue a clear ruling on the question: was the COVID-19 mRNA injection a vaccine for the benefit of the population’s health, or a bioweapon? Van Kessel said: “It’s one or the other, and there’s no in between.”

The Northern Netherlands District Court, Leeuwarden location, announced in early June 2025 – finally – that the first substantive hearing of the case is scheduled for July 9th. On Wednesday morning, June 11th, there was a completely unexpected turn of events. Arno van Kessel was dragged from his bed early in the morning by a special intervention team with a considerable display of force. The lawyer, his daughter, and his wife were even briefly held at gunpoint.

A day later, the police published a report on the website politie.nl linking Van Kessel to “a criminal network.” According to a press release issued by the Public Prosecution Service, eight people were arrested that morning for “adhering to anti-institutional ideology and possibly intending to use violence.” One of them was quickly released, while the other seven were held in restricted custody for two weeks, meaning the suspects were not allowed any contact with the outside world. Van Kessel – as was announced last week – was being held in a cell in Vught.

In recent weeks, several stories have appeared in the mainstream media about a network of so-called sovereigns. These “anti-institutionalists” may have been planning something related to the NATO summit. Weapons and explosives may have been found, but any hard evidence or substantiation remains lacking to this day. The suggestion that Van Kessel is also part of a dangerous criminal group has been raised. The charges have since been partially withdrawn. The AD newspaper reported last week that the Public Prosecution Service has been unable to substantiate a plan to disrupt the NATO summit. “We have investigated whether there is an imminent threat. This has not been proven.”

On Thursday, June 26, the Public Prosecution Service released more news after a long silence. One suspect has been released, but “six suspects in the investigation into a criminal network, in which a large proportion of the arrested suspects espouse anti-institutional ideology and may have the intention to use violence, will remain in custody for an additional 90 days,” the Public Prosecution Service announced. Van Kessel is one of those suspects who will remain in custody for another 90 days. The Public Prosecution Service states that it needs more time for the investigation and that “given the state of the investigation, it is not possible to respond substantively to questions about the progress, suspicions, and findings,” according to the Public Prosecution Service.

It’s remarkable that the mainstream media continues to use the “sovereign” frame. This is despite the fact that it was already clear in the first days after the arrest that Van Kessel is not a sovereign. As a lawyer, he is following the institutional path with his case. Van Kessel is also not known for being violent. He openly and unashamedly proclaims his faith in Jesus Christ everywhere, which implies that he opposes violence. The media writes nothing about this. They also ignore the story of Van Kessel’s partner (see box).

Peter Stassen – who is temporarily acting as head of Van Kessel’s law firm – told De Andere Krant that he, too, has not had any contact with his partner since June 11th. According to Stassen, restraining a suspect is one of the most severe measures the Public Prosecution Service has at its disposal, “so they have to produce very strong evidence.” So far, he has seen nothing. The Public Prosecution Service told this newspaper that “the Public Prosecution Service realizes that this is a very serious instrument and should not be used lightly,” but declined to comment further on the case.

The Eindhoven lawyer has since received word from the chairman of the Dutch Bar Association, the body responsible for overseeing the legal profession, that suspension proceedings have been initiated against Van Kessel. One way or another, it is therefore certain that Van Kessel will not be present on July 9th. Stassen did, however, make it very clear that despite his inadequate preparation, he “will be fully equipped.”

Stassen will also give a lecture in Groningen on July 1st about the latest developments. “It will go ahead as planned. I will explain a great deal in it, including addressing the State’s defense, in which they very clearly make personal attacks on the experts we want to speak,” says Stassen. More information about this can be found at Rechtoprecht.online.

Many suspect that attorney Van Kessel has gotten too close to the truth in the coronavirus case. This has led to the case being associated with the prosecution of German lawyer Reiner Fuellmich. We will discuss the case in more detail in the next edition of De Andere Krant.

The case strikes me as another example of how Globalist gangsters no longer even try to conceal that they have gone Full Fascist. Arresting a plaintiffs attorney in a late night raid of his home and detaining him for months on vague accusations of “espousing an anti-institutional ideology” is so crassly totalitarian as to be almost beyond belief.

Not surprisingly, the hopelessly fallen New York Times hasn’t reported van Kessel’s arrest. Once widely regarded as the thoroughbred of U.S. news reporting, the Times now resembles an old, swayback donkey covered with manure. The English language is insufficient for me to express the depth of my contempt for that useless rag, unworthy of being used as ersatz toilette paper in a subway station public restroom.

The German press is no better. A Google Germany search for niederländischer Anwalt Arno van Kessel verhaftet (“Netherlands attorney Arno van Kessel arrested”) yielded not a single report from a single major German newspaper. How is this possible?

I thought I’d grown accustomed to being presented with evidence that a cabal of globalists and their puppets—such as former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who is now Secretary General of NATO—run the world, but it occurs to me this morning that this story beats them all. Please forward this critically important report to your friends.

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Via https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/lawyer-suing-gates-and-bourla-for?r=83qir

World War II Lies of the West Part 1

Directed by Tatiana Borsh

Film Review

https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/2001-world-war-ii-lies-of-the-west-part-1

This is Part 1 of a two part series documenting efforts by the West to erase the crucial role of the Soviet Union in defeating Hitler’s Third Reich during World War II.

• Lie #1 – The Soviet refused to come to the aid of Czechoslovakia when Hitler was threatening to invade.

In reality, the Soviets were the only Allied country to oppose Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. Not only did France and England fail to come to Czechoslovakia’s defense, but they gave her an ultimatum not to resist the Nazi invasion.* With far more tanks than Hitler and the best weapons in Europe, the Czechs could easily have defeated the Germans. It was largely the acquisition of Czech tanks that allowed Hitler to roll over Europe in a matter of months.

The USSR (which had to traverse Poland to reach Czechoslovakia) sent troops to the Polish border but Poland refused to grant them safe passage. In fact Poland sought to dissolve Czechoslovakia and split the country between Germany, Poland and Hungary. Following Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, Poland invaded Silesia in northeastern Czechoslovakia, while Hungary invaded eastern Czechoslovakia.

• Lie #2 The USSR defeated Nazi Germany by sacrificing massive numbers of Soviet conscripts as canon fodder.

The West typical credits the Soviets with 27 million dead during World War II. However this number includes nearly 19 million civilian killed by Nazi atrocities. Only 44% of Soviet POWs returned from captivity (the majority were killed while interned).** This contrasts with 865 German, Hungarian and Croatian Nazis repatriated by the Soviets.

According to Russian figures, 7.8 million Nazi troops were killed from war wounds, disease and accidents, compared to 8.7 million Soviet troops.

• Lie #3 The Soviets played a secondary role to the other Allied powers in defeating Germany.

The Soviets fought Hitler and his European allies virtually by themselves from the Nazi invasion in ntil the US-UK landing in Normandy in June 1944. Meanwhile many major US companies continued to provide money and oil to the Nazi regime, as both the US and Britain refused to bomb their German subsidiaries. Every third soldier in the assault on the Soviet Union was non-German. Officially Italy, Slovakia, Hungary and Finland declared war on the USSR at the same time as Germany. Unofficially Norway, Denmark and Switzerland also participated in the attack on the USSR, while the Netherlands and Denmark participated in SS missions and Lithuania, Ukraine, Estonia, Czechoslovakia Vichy France (320,000 French joined the Nazi armed forces) and Poland supplied troops.

Despite an agreement the US and UK made to open a second front against the Germans in 1942, they waited until it became clear that the Soviets were 180 miles from Berlin (and about to defeat the Germans by themselves), eleven months before the official German defeat in May 1945.

• Lie #4 The Soviets killed and raped civilians

This was propaganda disseminated by Hitler’s minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels and mindlessly taken up by Western propagandists. On January 19, 1945, Stalin issued a special order that all Russians guilty of civilian violence or rape. According to Russian veterans interviewed in the film, this was rigorously enforced.

*In March 1939, the Bank of England transferred the Czech government’s gold to the Nazi Reichsbank. See The Bank of England Hands Over Czech Gold to the Nazis. Both the governor and the chairman of the BOE were part of a powerful coalition of British fascists (which included the future king Edward VII, Neville Chamberlain, Lloyd George and Churchill’s brother-in-law Oswald Moseley) who envisioned Britain and Germany as co-leaders of a fascist world government.

** Nazi authorities treated American, British and French POWs far better than Soviet POWs.

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By Luis Prada

Your image, your voice, and your essence as a human being could be gobbled up and regurgitated by AI. The clock is ticking on when you’re control over your image and representation is completely out of your hands.

To tip the scales back in favor of those who wish to remain in firm control of their image, Denmark has put forth a proposal that would give every one of its citizens the legal ground to go after someone who uses their image without their consent.

This specifically covers deepfakes, those videos of a person’s face or body that have been digitally altered so they appear to be someone else.

The Scandinavian nation has put forth a proposal to amend its copyright laws so that everyone owns the rights to their own face, their own voice, and their body. Current laws aren’t quite up to snuff when it comes to protecting people from having their likenesses twisted and contorted.

Denmark Is Giving Citizens Copyright to Their Own Faces

Danish Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt is taking a stand for all of those whose likeness has been callously tossed into images and videos without their consent. “Human beings can be run through the digital copy machine and be misused for all sorts of purposes, and I’m not willing to accept that,” he told The Guardian.

The proposed legislation defines a deepfake as a realistic digital representation of a person, including their appearance and voice. Under this new law, anyone in Denmark will be able to demand the removal of such content if it was shared without consent, including digitally recreated performances of artists.

Compensation may be on the table for those affected. Satire and parody, however, get a free pass, though it’s easy to imagine a future where this is a loophole that some will attempt to exploit.

The bill has massive political support, with nine out of ten MPs backing it. It’s poised to hit parliament in the fall after a consultation period. If tech platforms don’t fall in line, Denmark is ready to slap some massive fines on them and escalate the matter to the European Commission.

Engel-Schmidt hopes other European countries will follow suit.

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Via https://www.vice.com/en/article/denmark-is-fighting-ai-by-giving-citizens-copyright-to-their-own-faces/

These names are on the list because these people were identified in court by name in sworn testimony under oath and the records of their guilt are publicly available. All you gotta do is look them up. You just have to know that they exist.

Flight logs? How many hundreds of self-important, too-rich-for-their-own-good fools went to Jeffrey Epstein’s Little St James Pedo Island? They are not all pedophiles. Shouldn’t that be obvious? That flight log is packed with everybody and his dog and cat so that the very idea of pedophilia and child sex trafficking looks ridiculous.

Selfies taken with celebrities? Come on! Epstein and Maxwell were celebrity butterflies in New York, London, Washington and L.A. for twenty years. Ghislaine Maxwell spoke before the United Nations nine times in the 1990s. Celebrities smile for selfies. They are not exactly geniuses. That’s not proof.

But the proof does exist and it’s public.

Larry C. Johnson on Sonar 21, 9 July 2025: The Epstein Client List — Why is Trump Breaking His Promise to Publish? https://sonar21.com/the-epstein-client-list-why-is-trump-breaking-his-promise-to-publish/

“Although Donald Trump and Pam Bondi insist that there is no Epstein Client List… there is a list and it is reproduced above with the permission of its author, Ryan Dawson. Ryan compiled the list the old-fashioned way… he combed through court transcripts and charging documents. He only put names on the list if the victims of Epstein’s pedophilia enterprise identified or named a particular individual. As you peruse the list you will notice that there are some very wealthy, powerful individuals named. Not one of them has brought a libel or slander legal action against Ryan. If he was posting false material, he would have been a certain target of lawsuits…

“So why has Donald Trump broken his promise to publish the list? I think there are two reasons — neither mutually exclusive. First, Donald Trump probably paid no attention to Ryan’s work and was never familiar with the list. Once he signed the Executive Order to publish the Epstein file, he was then briefed on the actual names and realized that many of them are major donors to his campaign, e.g., Jamie Dimon, Robert Kraft. While there are several names on that list who are confirmed anti-Trumpers, there are others who are friends.

“Second, and in my opinion a more important consideration, is that the full Epstein file would expose a foreign intelligence blackmail operation that would implicates the Mossad and the CIA. Alexander Acosta, the former Secretary of Labor for Donald Trump, said he was told that Jeffrey Epstein had ties to intelligence. During the controversy surrounding his handling of Epstein’s 2008 plea deal as a U.S. attorney, Acosta reportedly told Trump administration officials that he had been informed Epstein “belonged to intelligence,” and that this was a reason for the unusually lenient plea agreement. It would not surprise me that Bibi Netanyahu asked Trump to pull the plug on releasing the material. Did Trump get something in return from Bibi, such as agreeing to a ceasefire? We will find out in the coming days.

“While Trump may think he can smooth this over with his MAGA base, I think he has done serious damage to his Presidency by embracing the lie that, ‘there is no list.’ ”

I urge everyone to view this article and the videos included. Mr Ryan Dawson is an exciting new discovery for me.

Firstly, Ryan assembled his list by doing the plodding dog work of going trough the transcripts of the civil and criminal legal proceedings which resulted in these most powerful elite billionaires and even leaders of nations being convicted in courts of law and paying billions of dollars in compensation to keep their depravity under the public radar. There’s no big secret here. No big REVEAL waiting in the wings. It’s all being done in court, under oath, in publicly available transcripts and records. All you have to do is look it up. And anybody can do it.

This in itself drives Ryan’s main point, that we, the global public, are being persuaded that the law is dead and the rich and powerful are getting away with worse than murder. That is not the case.

We out here in the internet are persuaded, in propaganda so subtle and carefully designed that we can scarcely even keep foremost in mind, to think that these criminals are getting away with their depravity. That’s a lie! They are landing in courts and getting so securely convicted that they dare not wage further perverted and frivolous lawsuits (such as suing Ryan Dawson into bankruptcy and prison, for one small instance). Why don’t people including Tony Blair and Bill Gates crush Ryan like a bug? Because trying to do that would only create another legal opera that would expose their evil even more spectacularly.

And that’s where the evil elites are concentrating their warfare on truth and justice. Keeping Ryan obscure by stomping on internet platforms. Ryan has not been physically destroyed like Julian Assange was. Did we not notice? The persecution of Assange only spotlighted the injustice. Those who tried to kill him by perverting American and British law only brought more attention to themselves. That’s the opposite of what they need to do. I think the secret councils of oligarchs who run the WEF and World Bank and City of London decided to step on those of their allies who were obsessed with destroying Assange and compelled them to surrender and stop embarrassing the global establishment.

And, yes, I believe such conferences exist. Those who rule the global institutions and corporations would love us lowly peasants to think multibillionaires and aristocrats are gods. They aren’t, they are real individuals who coffee-up every morning along with the rest of humanity.

The smarter way for these arrogant people to go is what they are doing to Ryan Dawson (and he’s far from the only one, I’d bet). Every time he tries to get some exposure on the major platforms like YouTube they squash the platform. Why don’t they just kill him?

There’s an interesting question. I’ll have to guess the answer, outsider and non-lawyer that I am. My guess is that killing Ryan would be likely to backfire.

Ryan is not working with any secret inside info that can be squashed by killing him. Everything he exposes is legal, public information that anybody can access by just doing the easy but boring dog-work of combing through publicly available transcripts. It’s all an open record on the Cloud. It’s indestructible on the global internet.

Dinesh D’Souza well established that the internet and Google were created by British-American and Israeli covert military intelligence beginning as far back as the 1950s. Home computers were marketed to the masses beginning in the 1980s. I’d be pretty sure that the “Intelligence Community” got excited about the prospect of popularizing a way to mind-control public opinion. They sold the idea to the global financial and commercial aristocrats of the Atlanticist “West” and the arrogant mavins of the “Free World” eagerly signed on to criminalizing global commerce. The 1990s were the high water mark of Western “Oligarchs” and Economic Hit Men. They were eager to believe themselves to be untouchable geniuses, jolly pirates who could never be caught and hanged.

Thus the masters and their “Intelligence” mercenaries fell victim to the temptation of the fictional Dr Frankenstein. The creators of the internet have made a monster that they cannot control. As artificial Intelligence advances with the unstoppable logic of what Karl Marx called “Capitalism”, the internet becomes more and more uncontrollable and so does the public opinion that smart guys such as Gates and Zuckerberg thought they could play with and not get burned.

By the way, Bill Gates is on that list. Just thought I’d mention it.

Ryan Dawson has seen some stuff that came out in court which describes crimes against children “worse than sex trafficking … bestiality and sick stuff…” Maybe horror movie fans can imagine some of this. Not my taste.

I can tell you that some of it came out quite recently in sworn testimony, public testimony under oath and threat of perjury, in the Israeli Knesset. Men and women who dress in the costumes and profess the religion of Orthodox Judaism are publicly convicted of child sexual abuse and torture of children in Israel and beyond Israel with their criminal connections within the global Diaspora.

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Via https://jshepard.substack.com/p/the-real-epstein-list-and-what-it

Syria’s Presidential Palace, now home to MI6

Kit Klarenberg

On July 19th, the Mail on Sunday revealed that Inter-Mediate, a shadowy firm founded by Jonathan Powell, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s National Security Advisor, brokered re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Damascus and London, and a heavily-publicised meeting between Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Syria’s self-appointed leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, two weeks prior. What’s more, the outlet exposed how Inter-Mediate – which is funded by the British state – operates a dedicated office in Syria’s Presidential Palace.

Britain’s opposition Conservative party has demanded a formal inquiry into this flagrant conflict of interest, Powell’s use of Inter-Mediate “to run back channels to terrorist groups”, and how his non-ministerial position means Starmer’s National Security Advisor – who reportedly wields “more influence over foreign policy than anyone in government after the Prime Minister himself” – isn’t accountable to parliament. A “Whitehall source” offered a scathing appraisal of Inter-Mediate to the Mail on Sunday:

Inter-Mediate’s central role in assisting HTS’ rise to power in Damascus was first revealed in May by Independent Arabia. This followed disclosures from Robert Ford, US ambassador to Syria 2011 – 2014, that in 2023 a British “non-governmental organisation” sought his personal assistance in transforming HTS – in particular Ahmad Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad Jolani – from “terrorists” into politicians. Inter-Mediate was unnamed by Ford, and the company’s subsequent identification by Independent Arabia initially went entirely unremarked upon in the mainstream.

Now Inter-Mediate’s intimate embedment with Damascus’ post-Assad government has been confirmed, the media is unprecedentedly referring to the administration as comprised of barbarous extremists linked to Al Qaeda and ISIS. Nonetheless, deeper consideration of the grave ramifications of an MI6-connected private company maintaining a secret office in Syria’s Presidential Palace, and the degree to which that dark, clandestine alliance affords London unseen sway over Sharaa and his henchmen, has remained stubbornly lacking.

Moreover, the eerie coincidence of Jonathan Powell assuming his role as Starmer’s National Security Advisor mere days before his HTS clients violently seized power in Syria has gone unremarked upon. The British Prime Minister immediately declared Bashar Assad’s ouster meant “a more active role” for London in West Asia, before dispatching high-ranking diplomats to meet with HTS representatives in Damascus. The media acknowledged these summits were completely illegal, as HTS was a proscribed terror group under British law.

Since taking office, Sharaa has announced Syria’s once-independent economy is fully open for Western rape and pillage, carried out massacres of Alawites and other religious minorities, while seeking to normalise relations with Israel. Despite the Zionist entity routinely executing highly destructive airstrikes against government and military infrastructure since Assad’s fall, HTS appears undeterred. We are thus left to ponder whether the extremist government’s brutal internal repression, and concerted inaction over Tel Aviv’s military bombardments and incursions into its territory, are ultimately directed by MI6.

‘Deny Responsibility’

There is little hint of Inter-Mediate’s deep and cohering ties to British intelligence on its official website, beyond its staff and board being composed of Western diplomatic and military veterans. A section on the company’s “work” boasts of its nous in brokering “backchannels with hard-to-reach conflict actors” in environments where “direct negotiations are impossible or inadvisable.” Inter-Mediate supposedly “builds the foundations for dialogue between groups, mitigating active violence and creating space for political solutions in some of the world’s most intractable conflicts.”

Syria was quite some “intractable conflict” – not least because Assad’s popular government steadfastly refused to relinquish power to mass-murdering CIA and MI6-backed foreign elements that invaded the country in 2011. Leaked emails of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton indicate Inter-Mediate was active in Damascus from the first stages of the foreign-fomented “crisis”. In March 2012, Clinton’s senior aide Jake Sullivan contacted her, announcing Powell had “launched a new NGO that has already initiated some very interesting work below the radar.”

An attached email from Powell noted Inter-Mediate had “[set] up secret channels between insurgents and governments” in several countries, was preparing to start work in Burma, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, and sought to pitch its services to senior State Department officials. He added his firm “work closely” with the British Foreign Office, National Security Council, and MI6. At this time, it was well-understood in Washington that Syrian “insurgents” were affiliated with Al Qaeda, among other ultra-extremist entities.

The leaks amply suggest Inter-Mediate’s relationship with the same elements that went on to form HTS stretches back well over a decade, London’s plan to install them in Damascus long-predates Powell’s covert approaches to Robert Ford in 2023, and the firm’s dedicated office in the Syrian Presidential Palace has been long in the making. The influence granted by such a bond cannot be understated. Inter-Mediate is not the only British intelligence cutout that has insidiously inserted itself into foreign corridors of power in West Asia.

As this journalist has previously exposed, Lebanon’s security  and intelligence apparatus is heavily penetrated by London, to the extent British intelligence contractor Torchlight maintains a dedicated office within Beirut’s Military Intelligence Directorate. Leaked documents outlining this infiltration note the firm’s covert presence is a highly effective means of “rapidly developing relationships of trust” with the agency’s high-ranking staff, and ensuring they are “unlikely to say ‘no’” to further involvement of British personnel and technology in the Directorate’s sensitive operations.

Derrick Broze
July 24, 2025

While claiming to support the MAHA movement, the EPA under Trump has now taken steps to undo last year’s historic ruling which found that fluoride poses a risk to the neurodevelopment of children.

On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency officially appealed a federal court ruling which ordered the agency to take action against the risks posed by fluoridation chemicals.

The EPA staked their appeal on three main arguments, including a belief that the plaintiffs’ lack standing, the judge improperly considered new evidence, and the district court went beyond its authority in its management of the case.

The EPA’s appeal is the latest development in a nearly decade-long legal saga between the EPA, and parents of children impacted by water fluoridation, as well as the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). The lawsuit began following the EPA’s 2016 decision to deny the plaintiff’s petition under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). In September 2024, Judge Edward Chen found that fluoridation of water at 0.7 milligram per liter “poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children”.

Chen said the risk is sufficient to require the EPA to enact a regulatory response. However, he said that TSCA only granted him the authority to direct the EPA to take action against the risk, but not to prescribe the specifics of its response, which could range from a national warning to an outright ban.

In the final days of the Biden administration the EPA filed their appeal, and now, under leadership appointed by President Donald Trump, the EPA has decided to continue fighting the judge’s ruling.

The EPA contends that at least one of the plaintiffs’ water contains naturally occurring fluoride and thus they cannot prove injury as a result of community water fluoridation. The agency also claims that the Judge’s decision to allow studies which were published after the original 2016 TSCA petition violated the act.

“The district court violated TSCA Section 21 by permitting Plaintiffs to rely on evidence not first presented to EPA in the petition and reviewed by EPA in denying the petition. The court’s final merits ruling overwhelmingly relied on voluminous evidence that did not even exist at the time of the original petition,” the EPA and Department of Justice wrote in their appeal.

Michael Connett, the lead attorney representing the Fluoride Action Network and plaintiffs, said the EPA is arguing the court should have ignored relevant science published after 2016.

“I think most people would find that to be at odds with the public interest at stake here. We should be having decisions made in 2024 that reflect the science that is in existence in 2024,” Connett told The Last American Vagabond (TLAV).

“The court should not have had to bury its head in the sand and act like all this new research didn’t exist.”

The EPA also argues that Judge Chen “commandeered” the trial by not ruling after the close of evidence during the first phase of the trial in 2020.

Supporters of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, spearheaded by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have been critical of the EPA’s decision to appeal the federal court ruling. Especially after Kennedy and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin held a press conference in April announcing the agency’s decision to “expeditiously review” new scientific information on potential health risks of fluoride in drinking water. Kennedy also said he would instruct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop promoting water fluoridation.

Notably, Zeldin and Kennedy did not mention the fluoride lawsuit in their press release or during their press conference.

However, Michael Connett believes public pressure on the EPA and the Trump administration may have an impact.

“It’s important for us to know that they can withdraw this appeal any day, anytime. So it is worth it for people to express their anger and discontent to this administration and to ask them to stand down on this appeal,” Connett said. “If EPA was to announce that they are withdrawing this appeal, boom, the judge’s ruling is final, and then we would move to a rulemaking  proceeding where we could actually get a ban on water fluoridation.”

While some MAHA supporters may have been surprised by the EPA’s appeal, TLAV has previously reported on the Trump administration’s multiple requests for extension so they could decide if they would proceed with the appeal. In that reporting we noted that the final decision was in the hands of U.S. Solicitor General.

The U.S. Solicitor General is D. John Sauer, the former Solicitor General of Missouri from 2017 to 2023. Sauer is most well known for being the lawyer who represented Trump in his successful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. United States. In that case, Sauer argued that U.S. Presidents have broad immunity for actions taken while in office, including ordering SEAL Team 6 to assassinate political rivals.

“Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached, would he be subject to criminal prosecution?,” a judge asked Sauer in January 2024. Sauer responded with a “qualified yes”, noting that a President would first “have to be impeached and convicted”.

Unfortunately, the fact that Donald Trump’s EPA is deciding to appeal a court ruling rather than seek a ban or limiting of public exposure to fluoridation chemicals is only the latest in a recent string of betrayals for the MAHA movement.

In the 6 months since Donald Trump came into office, the Food and Drug Administration has approved three separate mRNA injections, most recently COVID injections for 6 month old children. HHS Secretary Kennedy has also sent mixed signals regarding his position on vaccines, calling for studying the connection between vaccines and autism, as well as promoting the MMR injection which he previously campaigned against. Just this week the House of Representatives approved a measure which would keep the EPA from labeling pesticides.

While each of these decisions are not directly the responsibility of Kennedy, they do highlight how the Trump administration is not united on the MAHA agenda. Unfortunately for the American people, that means continued exposure to toxins like pesticides and fluoride.

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Via https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/trump-epa-fluoride-appeal/